Hope Is Growing & You Can Help It Spread

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Here is the truth we see every day:

Yes, the world is changing fast.
Yes, young people are worried.
Yes, communities are hurting.

But there's more to this story. Young people are also:

🌳 Planting forests
🌊 Restoring coastlines & defending water
🌺 Revitalizing culture.
📚 Sharing knowledge.

They are building the future we all hope for.

What we need now is support: consistent, reliable, community-powered support.

Your donation today helps Earth Guardians' young climate leaders continue to:

grow forest nurseries
protect ancestral lands
train entire communities in agroecology practices
launch environmental projects
access leadership pathways
and stay rooted in hope, culture, and resilience

With your support, we are raising $25,000-60,000 by December 31 to keep this work growing.

We’ve already hit our first milestone ($8,000)!

Please help us reach our goal. Donate today, then share this fundraiser with at least 10 more people.

Thank you for being an Earth Guardian!

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Join A Global Environmental Community

Your network of climate leaders, created for Youth by Youth.

Earth Guardians is a revolutionary environmental nonprofit that provides youth with the resources and training needed to create anti-racist, anti-colonialist environmental and climate-oriented projects and campaigns that make a real difference locally, nationally, and internationally. Get involved in the movement, connect with your people, and become an Earth Guardian.

What Makes Earth Guardians Unique

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Our Theory of change

We promote youth leadership in the environmental movement, especially among marginalized groups, by utilizing education, training, community building, and direct action - shifting power into the hands of the next generation.

We work to center marginalized, tokenized, and underserved communities’ voices and needs and work in the climate justice movement by providing educational resources, micro-grants, network connections, public speaking opportunities, training, campaigns, partnerships, & mentorship to inspire intergenerational leadership.

Earth Guardians' foundation is based on centering the experiences, knowledge, and voices of youth and other underserved communities, and we believe a global shift towards centering these perspectives is the key to healing the climate and environmental crisis.

Long-term, we hope to see that we created an impact that shapes the future of global decision-making by putting power into the hands of youth, women, LGBTQIA+ people, BIPOC communities, folks living with visible and invisible disabilities, and other disenfranchised identities.

Learn more about Earth Guardians

With thousands of engaged youth on six continents, Earth Guardians has given youth a voice, direction, and global platform to become influential leaders and make measurable changes in their communities.

Each year, we develop new resources to build a more robust collaborative network and cultivate this enormous wave of youth engagement.

Highlights of Our Impact

See 2024 Impact

Earth Guardians is for youth, by youth. We stand behind this, and in 2023 we underwent a metamorphosis, becoming truly intergenerational with youth at the helm and in leadership roles at every level of the organization.
Our paid team is a diverse force of young change-makers, environmental activists, and community leaders driving impactful initiatives for a better future.
Our crews conducted 80 projects across 30 African countries, reaching over 1 million beneficiaries through this initiative alone.
In the East & West Africa region, our crews implemented reforestation programs in 30 African countries. Our crews planted 7000 trees in Togo, and established a plant nursery fostering 5000 trees in Cameroon, where they also planted over 9,000 hectares of land with trees.
We also achieved eight key partnerships in Brazil with local and international government and non-governmental organizations. Our crews drove impactful climate emergency initiatives like ‘SOS Horta Parque’ and the ‘7k Project,’ a multi-year process of planting 7000 trees.
Crews are youth-led, intergenerational groups of impassioned leaders across continents taking action together for a healthy, just, and sustainable future.